Spaced out over the next 11 days, we will feature end-of-season profiles for every player on the Washington Capitals, a year-in-review of sorts looking at their statistics, story lines and such. The full list of published pieces can be found at the end.
Up now, center and alternate captain Nicklas Backstrom.
The first rule of talking to Nicklas Backstrom is to never ask about Nicklas Backstrom, because the answers he provides to such questions are never what you are seeking.
Sure, he will call the Capitals’ 2014-15 season “a step in the right direction” and juxtapose the optimistic feeling of this breakdown day with the sullen morass of years past.